Another item found by Flint Dille during clearout of his storage last year and auctioned off. Now permission has been granted to post by it's new owner. His first script for animation: Mystery Of The Forbidden Monastery, an episode of the Mr.T animated series produced by Ruby-Spears in 1983. Co-written with future Sunbow alumni Steve Gerber and Martin Pasko.
MP 700 The Transformers. part 1
Linked via the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel. All 65 episodes of The Transformers season 1 and 2 are now available to view in full, next to their respective scripts and other production material.
With thanks to Jim Sorenson and Nathan Stacy, full storyboard sets for The Evil Eye and Primal Passions are now available for viewing.
It should be noted that The Evil Eye contains some scenes that were not deleted by Marvel producers, but were removed from the finished episode in post-production. These scenes were clearly deemed as going too far, even by the standards of Inhumanoids.
The episode was also one of many across multiple shows being produced in mid-1986 that had it's runtime cut to around 19 minutes. We can now see that this decision was taken by Marvel in LA, before the episode was sent to Toei.
From Will Meugniot's facebook: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3127071174246062&id=100008296299260
Marvel Productions alumni Don Jurwich has passed away at the age of 87. Among his many credits in a career spanning nearly 50 years, he was:
Various odds and ends added to the archive this month
Added a new section covering animated commercials that don't come under the umbrella of properties with full-length shows. Including Battle Beasts, Ninja Warriors, Secret Wars and a Captain America PSA produced on behalf of the US Department Of Energy in 1981
*Updated 26/05/21*
Thanks to contributor Ransack The Elder, the archive now hosts on-set photos and storyboards for Griffin-Bacal's production of the 1992 GI Joe toy commercials.
After 1990, the agency dropped animated short-length advertising (at the same time as returning to full-length animation with Bucky O'Hare) in favour of serialized, live-action storytelling. For 1992, the plot centered around a scheme by Destro (voiced by Arthur Burghardt for the final time) to kidnap and brainwash Duke into serving Cobra.
Added model sheets covering Expressions, Attitudes and Mouth Guides for the main cast members, Dungeon Master, Venger and Tiamat's Heads
Also, added model sheets for episode no.2 Eye Of The Beholder (Sir John, Sir John's Son, Blue Dragon, Escargyte and the Hyena-Like Creatures).
Added the Construction Model sheets for all main cast members, as revised at the start of season 2. Consisting of five or six sheets per character: Front (some with A and B views), Front 3/4 view, Side, Rear, Rear 3/4 view.
Also replaced the existing sheets for Mouth Guides, Expressions, Attitudes, Turnarounds and Construction with better quality copies
There is a new page at the archive for contemporary shows produced by other companies, not affliated with Sunbow or Marvel Productions. Containing miscellaneous items, as well as production timelines I have put together as something of a hobby. The page will also be a place for websites specializing in other franchises and companies to be linked. If anyone knows of a website based around archiving animation production material that they feel should be linked, drop me a line on the Blogger contact form.
Shows/companies currently covered by the page are:
Toyfair Catalogues
An ongoing project at the archive for this month will be to add the relevant catalogue sections to each show page. Links and listings will be updated here as needed:
The newest addition to the archive, auctioned off by Flint Dille and scans contributed by new owner Steve Chu, are storyboards for Megatron's Master Plan, Part 2.
Drawn by Keith Tucker, they cover the Additional Material insert that was added to Act 3 of the episode. As Don Glut's script ran three to four minutes short of the required runtime. This copy was sent to Flint Dille, in his role as Associate Producer of the show and was uncovered from his storage in late 2020.
Recently, I stumbled upon the unofficial fansite www.bikermice.com , which had lain untouched since 1998. From the site, I salvaged and formatted two full scripts. One for the season 2 episode Return To Mars, Part 3 and the late season 3 episode Caveat Mentor.
Biker Mice From Mars was the last show commissioned under the banner of Marvel Productions. Solicited in trade adverts in 1992 and debuting in September 1993. During 1993, changes within Marvel Entertainment Group saw the production company reorganised and renamed to New World Animation. The writing of the series was reaching its conclusion at the end of summer 1994. However, because the show remained on weekends during it's initial run and did not make the jump to weekday afternoons, new episodes kept airing until February 1996.
With thanks to Jim Sorenson, the show bible for Robotix has been added to the MP 4000 section. Along with the 14 scripts for episode recap, with correspondence by story editor Alan Swayze
Background keys for select episodes of Season One have been added to the archive, thanks to Ryan King.
Elaine Hultgren, co-owner of and layout artist at XAM Productions in Utah, made the jump to storyboard artist for Marvel in 1985. For her storyboard test, the Transformers episode Blaster Blues was used for story. Those storyboards are now available at the archive. Elaine would go on to be credited for the entire runs of Jem, Inhumanoids and Dino-riders. Her career would continue to be involved with shows covered by the archive throughout the 1990s. First with Marvel, then with Graz Entertainment and the final involvement with a Sunbow co-production coming with Generation O! in the year 2000.
All 31 storyboard sequences for the movie have been cropped to the original two-panel pages. All pages have been straightened, vertical pans rotated and file sizes reduced for ease of loading and viewing.
The full storyboard for the main title sequence has been added to the archive.